Perfil clínico epidemiológico de mulheres com deficiência sensitiva e motora atendidas na estratégia de saúde da família do município de Cajazeiras - PB.

Abstract

In Brazil there are 45.6 million people with some form of disability. Among this population, there is a majority of females are 25.8 million Brazilian living with a disability. A number of women that although high, live still susceptible to many problems. Thinking about it, it aimed to: Identify the clinical epidemiological profile, describe the sociodemographic profile and identify the most prevalent deficiencies of women with sensory disabilities and motor assisted in the health strategy of the family in the city of Cajazeiras, Paraíba. Therefore, it was used as a method a descriptive cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. The study results show that most of the research women declared themselves to be mulatto (55.9%), married (38.2%) with mean age of 54.79. Much has low education, with incomplete primary education (44.1%) and housewives (26.5%), farmers (20.6%) and informal workers (20.6%). A significant number said to receive some benefit from social security (91.2%), and having lower monthly per capita income than 1 minimum wage (76.5%). The most prevalent deficiencies, we paraparesis (38.2%), followed by multiple deficiency (14.7%) and mastectomies (11.8%). The main causes of these deficiencies were to internal (diseases and complications) and acquired, with prevalence (92.9% and 88.2%) respectively. Regarding comorbidities and complications, 61.8% said they have them, which excelled expressively hypertension associated with diabetes (42.9%). This population of women with disabilities, 88.2% said they make use of any medication, of which 46.7% are antihypertensives and 16.7% anti-hypertensive and anti-hyperglycemic and 23.5% use tobacco. Thus, it was observed that most studied deficient women living in socially vulnerable and health situation.